Cambridge University Library 2 Part Set A History

Klappentext The second volume of the history of the Cambridge University Library examining its significance in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Zusammenfassung This second volume! a companion to the first by J. C. T. Oates! takes the history of the Library from the time of the Copyright Act of Queen Anne to the end of the nineteenth century when the Library's place within the University and in the scholarly world as a whole was well established. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Preface and acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: national expectations; 2. The Copyright Act of 1710; 3. John Moore and his circle; 4. The making of the Royal Library; 5. The challenge of the Royal Library; 6. Benefactors! curiosities and strangers; 7. New buildings and old problems; 8. Richard Farmer; 9. Thomas Kerrich; 10. The national stage: the Copyright Act of 1814; 11. The end of the old regime; 12. 'Doctrinae et scientiae incrementa'; 13. Joseph Power and the distribution of responsibility; 14. The copyright agency; 15. New directions; 16. Turbulent years: J. E. B. Mayor; 17. Bradshaw in command; 18. Other men's flowers; 19. Bradshaw at bay; Appendix: list of librarians! 1686-1886; Index of manuscripts; General index.

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• Authors: David Mckitterick
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 06.08.2009
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism
• EAN: 9780521142533
• ISBN: 978-0-521-14253-3
• Pages: 826
• Series: Cambridge University Library: A History 2 Volume Paperback Set; Cambridge University Library: